Category Archives: Sports
Spurs stay in touch with Chelsea with 8th straight PL win
LONDON - For only the third time in its 135-year existence, Tottenham is enjoying an eight-match winning run in the league after edging past Crystal Palace 1-0 on Wednesday. Those runs in the 1950-51 ...
Apr 26, 2017
Sharapova wins 1st match on return from 15-month doping ban
STUTTGART, Germany - Looking relieved, Maria Sharapova went through her familiar routine of waving to the crowd and blowing kisses after winning her first match on her return from a 15-month doping ba...
Apr 26, 2017
Brad Gushue beats Steve Laycock 7-5, opens Champions Cup with back-to-back wins
CALGARY - World champion Brad Gushue is off to a fine start at the Champions Cup curling competition. Gushue, from St. John’s, N.L., scored three in the final end to down Saskatoon’s Steve...
Apr 26, 2017
Attorney: Hernandez hinted at suicide weeks before his death
BOSTON - Aaron Hernandez hinted about suicide weeks before he was found hanging by a bedsheet in prison last week, according to a jailhouse friend who once sought to share a cell with the former NFL s...
Apr 26, 2017
Canada edges England 7-6 to lock up world mixed doubles curling playoff spot
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Canada locked up a playoff berth at the world mixed doubles curling championship on Wednesday with a 7-6 victory over England. Joanne Courtney and Reid Carruthers stole the winning...
Apr 26, 2017
Canadian offensive lineman Justin Senior taking low-key approach to NFL draft
Justin Senior isn’t putting his life on hold for the NFL draft. The 22-year-old Montreal native is projected as a late-round selection, but he won’t be at a lavish draft party glued to the...
Apr 26, 2017
Raptors expecting a 48-minute 'dogfight' with Bucks in Game 6 in Milwaukee
TORONTO - Raptors coach Dwane Casey expects Game 6 in Milwaukee to be a 48-minute dogfight Thursday night as Toronto looks to close out its first-round playoff series against the young, athletic Bucks...
Apr 26, 2017
Rain postpones Blue Jays at Cardinals; doubleheader Thursday
ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Cardinals’ game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday night has been postponed because of rain. The game has been rescheduled as part of a day-night doubleheader o...
Apr 26, 2017
Whitecaps still searching for answers on the road ahead of visit to Montreal
VANCOUVER - Sheanon Williams felt strange leaving Providence Park last weekend. With a 2-1 defeat to the Portland Timbers still fresh in his mind, the Vancouver Whitecaps veteran defender thought his ...
Apr 26, 2017
Court hears arguments for releasing 38 Studios records
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The fight over whether to release secret grand jury records in the criminal investigation into Rhode Island’s $75 million deal with a video game company started by former Red ...
Apr 26, 2017
